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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 86 · yaledailynews.com
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UCS to fund interview travel
SOM Rankings Update.
Professor Rodrigo Canales, who teaches organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, has been named one of the ‘Best 40 Under 40 Professors’ by Poets and Quants. “My participant observation research in microfinance was like a season of Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs.” I found myself shearing sheep, collecting trash, butchering, milking cows...[and] a guest in a local drug lord’s house,” he said in the piece. Students also praised his talk on Mexican drug cartels in the article. Hats off to you Mr. White!
YCBA Late Night. The Yale Center for British Art hosted a late night last night, in an event titled ‘Student Night Out in the Study Room.’ During this after-hours event, students were allowed to meet curators and staff and view works in the center’s newly refurbished Study Room. Refreshments were also served in the Library Court. The art of art. Sketching
classes also started at the YCBA on Wednesday. The free sessions, where drawing materials are provided, allow attendees to practice sketching based on art in the Center’s collection with different instructors.
When in Rome... Yale art
history professor Diana Kleiner recently wrote the e-book Roman Architecture: A Visual Guide, an illustrated tour of the great buildings of the Roman empire. The book is a companion to her longtime Roman Architecture course, recently made available online through on Coursera. Now anybody can enjoy the wonders of learning and lectures!
Love is in the drink. Thali Too, Thali and Oaxaca Kitchen are all giving out complimentary martini’s for two during Valentine’s Day dinner for couples that print out a special coupon. Kissing for a cause. Kiss Away Cancer hit the dance floor at Toad’s last night. The charity component gives everyone who attended at least one reason not to regret their DFMO. Submit to The Wallace Prize.
The Wallace Prize is the most prestigious independently awarded undergraduate writing prize for fiction and nonfiction at Yale. Winners will receive a substantial cash prize, and winning submissions in each category will be published in the Yale Daily News Magazine. Submissions for this year are due by March 3.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1957 Handsome Dan IX is entered into a dog show for the first time. There are also rumors that Dan, currently a bachelor, may be wooing a bulldog named Sophia Smith. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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See’s death investigation continues BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER
Yale Club of New York, Dames said UCS will be able to cover up to $100 for about 150 students’ travel plans across the country this year. “There’s an incredible need for this service,” Dames said, adding that even a train ticket to New York represents a significant financial burden for many students. “We were seeing a lot of students in those fields not going to the interviews even if
Months after Samuel See, the late assistant professor of English, was found dead in a local jail cell, his family continues its quest for clarity of the events that led to his death. Kelly Flanagan, See’s sister, has led the family’s push for a lawsuit against the New Haven Police Department and the Connecticut State Judicial Branch — the agencies that arrested and detained See on Nov. 23, respectively — saying that details from medical reports and conversations with her brother before his death leave many questions unanswered. Though both agencies have launched internal investigations to ensure that protocol was followed, Flanagan maintains that only an additional lawsuit, and subsequent independent investigation, will reveal what the family believes to be the truth, that brutality and negligence played a significant part in See’s death. The family maintains this claim despite Chief State Medical Examiner James Gill’s finding that a methamphetamine-induced heart attack was to blame for See’s untimely death. “We’re going to pursue a lawsuit no matter what,” Flanagan said. “Just because someone died of an overdose doesn’t mean
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With plans to pay for student transportation to interviews, UCS hopes to expand job opportunities for Yale seniors. BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER This spring, some students will receive free transportation to job interviews — paid for not by their prospective employer, but by Yale’s Undergraduate Career Services. Starting this semester, UCS is expanding a program called “MetroLink” that helps subsidize travel expenses for seniors who have received offers to either interview
or audition for jobs in the nonprofit, public or performing arts sectors, according to UCS Director Jeanine Dames. Employers in these sectors tend to have smaller budgets for recruitment, she said. Last year, UCS piloted the program, though only 32 students who were traveling to Washington D.C. for interviews with government agencies were eligible at the time. After receiving funds from three private-sector employers and the
Kaleidoscope replaced BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER For the first time since 2007, Kaleidoscope — an original theatrical production featuring Yale students sharing their experiences with diversity — will not be one of the events for incoming freshmen in the first week of fall semester. Instead, admitted students will find stories of diversity in their email inboxes over the summer. A new program, called Unexp e c te d C o n n e c t i o n s, wa s announced in a Feb. 4 email to the student body by Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry. The email asked recipients to submit stories, short videos, images, poetry, spoken word or other pieces that describe relationships and friendships that began outside of their comfort zones. Students who participated in the program said they did not know the official reason for the cancellation of Kaleidoscope, but some suggested that the production caused a strain on both finances and labor. Gentry could not be reached for comment Wednesday. The Intercultural Affairs Council (IAC), which is comprised of students and administrators and aims to facilitate conversations and events that serve to bridge cultural groups, will now select pieces from the pool of submissions to be sent to freshmen over the summer, said IAC member Vanessa Noelte ’16. Noelte said that like Kaleidoscope, Unexpected Connections looks to eliminate stigma associated with various groups and cultures represented on campus. “There’s a lot of diversity at Yale, and, for some people, that’s very shocking,” Noelte said. “[With Unexpected Connections], we’re exploring a lot of different stories. People can connect more to this.” Kaleidoscope, Noelte said, was somewhat insufficient in that it only chose a handful of stories and failed to reach the entire freshman class, since many students chose to skip the event. To resolve this, Noelte said stories from Unexpected Con-
nections will be sent to the incoming class’s emails, allowing students to access them on their own time and perhaps even reach out to the students involved in the stories. Individuals involved in the most recent Kaleidoscope production were generally unbothered by its discontinuation. Joan Lipkin, director of Kaleidoscope and artistic director of That Uppity Theatre Company, said she was grateful for being able to partake in Yale’s commitment to diversity. She commended the University for creating an original piece of theater with an entirely new group of upperclassmen every year. “I have enjoyed working with students, faculty and administration at Yale over the past three years and hope that there will opportunities for me to do so again,” Lipkin said in an email to the News. “I felt very supported in my work as a guest artist and believe that we generated some beautiful and productive pieces that had an impact.” Although Lipkin said she was not told the reasoning behind Kaleidoscope’s cancellation, she acknowledged that the production is quite “labor-intensive regarding issues of housing, rehearsal and performance space, scheduling, rehearsals and devising of the material.” She added that even with a successful program like Kaleidoscope, the University may have wanted to explore other options. Michael Zhao ’15, who was a cast member last year, said he was shocked when Michael Perkins, the production’s assistant director, told the most recent class of cast members that Kaleidoscope would not return in the fall. Still, he conceded that the program had its drawbacks and could be improved. “I feel like Kaleidoscope definitely relies on the strength of the cast, and the strength of the cast relies on the people applying to be in it,” Zhao said. Zhao said many parts of the Yale community were not represented
Study probes tenured teaching BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Yale students who are taught by tenure-track professors may learn less than students taught by lecturers, according to a new study. According to a September 2013 report published by
the National Bureau of Economic Research that considered data from 15,000 Northwestern University students over eight years, students who took introductory courses taught by tenure-track professors learned less than students who took the same class with a non-tenuretrack professor — the Yale
equivalent of a lecturer. The researchers measured how much a student learned by evaluating two criteria: first, how likely the student was to take another class in that subject, and second, how well the student performed in that subsequent class. Non-tenure-track SEE TENURE PAGE 6
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A study revealed students in introductory classes with tenure-track professors learned less.